I think that provided your own desktop or laptop is powerful enough I would just use that for testing and development. Cloud wins out over a custom PC build due

I think that provided your own desktop or laptop is powerful enough I would just use that for testing and development. Cloud wins out over a custom PC build due to the flexibility you get. Want to run an algorithm on 10 nodes for 5 hours? No problem. Want to leave something running for days connecting to the twitter firehose? Sure. However building PCs and your own clusters is quite fun! Check out these https://www.picocluster.com/collections/cubes/products/pico-3-odroid-c2-cluster-cube https://www.picocluster.com/collections/cubes/products/pico-...